SP 60 km 3,5
97100 Ragusa RG
Italy
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Youth and education
Generazione Zero (GZ) is an Italian association founded in Ragusa (2011) from the idea of a group of students involved in a YiA programme, with an Executive Board of six memebers, including a Treasurer and two advisors.
The association's two main working areas are 1) antimafia – drafting and publishing articles concerning mafia issues on www.generazionezero.org, and promoting projects/activities to educate youth about legality; 2) human rights development - editing the www.dirittieuropa.it website with a deep focus on human rights issues, promoting partenership with Festival del Diritto (Piacenza, 2014) and working on the "Europe in Translation" project with the ECHR aiming at translating Information Notes for Italian jurisprudence.
The association works in Ragusa, Rome, Turin. Main partners include Libera, Fuci, CGIL, Siciliani giovani, Radio Impegno, Red-Tree (Spain), Youthfull-Yours Slovakia, Attiva-Mente, FERSO (Poland), Az-emberseg-erejevel-CVHA (Hungary) , Teatro-Metaphora (Portugal), Rujienas novada pașvaldiba (Latvia), Get-On-Board (Bulgary), Udruga-better-me (Croatia), Mediterrean forum for social development-MFFSD (Morocco).
The association main aim is that of promoting and spreading general culture. We take care of social and economic integration of vulnerable groups and outsiders.
Generazione Zero also promotes a feeling of european belonging, fostering the empowerment of citizens through democratic tools; and educates the public on the respect of institutions and law, on the fulfilment of the Italian Constitution and the value of transnational justice.
Furthermore, we recognize and defend the brotherhood between Mediterranean people, the respect for the environment and the territory as well as the participation of local communities to our country’s development. We promote and defend interculturality, gender equality and youth rights.
The association fight against all kinds of mafia, in every form and meaning, as a criminal, economic, political, social and cultural phenomenon. We reject any form of racism, discrimination, prejudice, fanatism, illegality and corruption. We base our activities on freedom of information, development of knowledge, educational tools as well as cultural and cognitive individual growth. Generazione Zero fights and deconstructs every dogma, enhancing tolerance in all its meanings.
The association developed the following projects:
- “Generazione Zero Sicilia”, 2011, Youth in Action programme: journalism and active citizenship in Sicily (province of Siracusa, Ragusa, Enna, Catania) for adolescents and young people;
- "Human dignity as fundamental value for european justice", 2013, Youth in Action programme: journalism focused on human rights and ECHR, events and informal training on these topics (Piacenza);
- "Gutenberg 2.0", 2014, course for promoters of social comunication in collaboration with the journal "Insieme" and Libera Ragusa;
- "Walls and Borders", 2015, Torino "Biennale Democrazia" programme, project focused on analysis of migration problems using three paths: journalistic, semiological and case-law;
- "Agromafie",Ragusa (2013/14): a series of events called 'Agromafie', about mafia and its strict links with rural activities;
- "Who we are - Who you are", 2015, Chiaramonte Gulfi (Ragusa), on migrants’ exploitation and education against mafia, contributing to a SPRAR project of the social coop 'Nostra Signora di Gulfi’;
- “Radio Impegno” project, Rome, 2016, together with other 50 local and national associations, a live streaming late-night radio project, focused on antimafia, education on legality, social integration
- "Europe in Translation", Catania, Rome and Turin, 2016-2019, in partnership with the Head of the Case-Law Information and Publications Division of ECHR, which aims to translate the Information Notes drafted by the ECHR from English and French in Italian language;
- “L’Europa dei Diritti”, Alessandria and Verona, 2017, project in partnership with the local Eurodirect offices, aimed to prepare and inform both University students and the civil society about the topic of Human Rights in Europe, European justice and the value of human dignity;
- “AOS – Agitarsi, Organizzarsi, Studiare”, Ragusa, 2018, project developed thanks to the refunds of the MPs of the political party Sinistra Italiana, journalistic and educational project for high school students;
- "WeRadio Greece", Serres, 2019, partner in a project funded by Erasmus+ programme, for european young workers to improve their webradio skills.
Generazione Zero can contribute to the network in Italy with its digital skills both in the training of young and in the media. For such reason, our added value is not only professional/technical, but also in terms of helping improve a critical thinking in young people. We founded our activities on social inclusion and gender equality. This can be an opportunity for youth groups to try out their skills in an equal, friendly environment.
Generazione Zero decided to join ALF Network because we would like to broaden the reach of our activities in the Mediterranean area, engaging with more organisations to foster international cooperation, in new ways and fashions. Furthermore, given our active participation within the European civil society, we could also be beneficial to the network, bringing experience, knowledge and contacts.